"The Blacklist" on Monday capped off its season as prime time's most-watched new series, but not before a wild and bloody finale that brought on just as many questions as it did answers.

So what did you think? Did it hold you in thrall the whole time? Did you want more? Did the twist at the end surprise you, or did you suspect that all season long? Where do we go from here?

Let us know by leaving us some comments. And while you're doing that, we'll briefly run down the highlights:

-- Our story takes place in the aftermath of the prison transport plane crash. Most of the Russian prisoners who survived the crash are captured and during their interrogations, they speak of a hooded man who apparently took control of the plane and then escaped by chopping off the guard tethered to him. This guy must be Red's mysterious enemy, a guy known only as Berlin.

-- Meera was killed in a brutal way, her throat slashed by an accomplice of Berlin. (Say good-bye to Parminder Nagra). Turns out that Berlin has his own list of targets and every member of the task force is on it. Meera takes her final breaths in a nightclub, where Lizzie arrives too late to save her.

-- Berlin's goon also gets to Director Cooper, who is strangled in a car. Soon after, Cooper's name is scratched off the list. Farewell? Not yet. By the end of the hour, we learn that he is still clinging to life in a hospital bed.

-- Red finally gets to Berlin and shoots him dead, even though Tom, standing just a few feet away, has a gun held to Lizzie's temple. But wait, that's not Berlin! (And Red knows it). Berlin, in fact, is a man who was questioned earlier in the hospital. Turns out he cut off his OWN hand to escape the plane! And now he has fled the hospital. (Haven't we seen this guy before in "Fargo"?).

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-- Tom is now dead. Lizzie's enigmatic husband goes down moments after Red shoots the fake Berlin. Following an exchange of gunfire, Liz and Tom wrestle for control of his gun and it goes off, a bullet hitting Tom in the gut. He bleeds out and dies, but not before whispering something in Lizzie's ear. We learn later what he said: "Your father is alive!" (UPDATE: Or did Tom die? As several of our commentators have noted, we never saw his body being carted out).

-- Berlin is still on the loose. As the hour winds down it becomes clear that he won't be caught. He shaves his beard (somewhat difficult with one hand) and heads off for parts unknown. This leaves the show with a major, go-to baddie who will probably loom over all of season 2.

-- Who's your daddy, Lizzie? Could be Red. After a lot of angst-ridden talk about what when down in that fateful fire so many years ago, Red assures Lizzie that her father died in the flames -- that what Tom said isn't true.

But in the final scene of the season, we see Red preparing for bed and taking off his shirt to reveal a maze of scars on his back -- scars that look like they were incurred in a fire.